Weekly report by TG Soft's C.R.A.M concerning Italian malspam campaigns.
Below the details of the campaigns massively spreaded during the week from June 05 to June 11, 2023.
In the monitored week , global campaigns declined compared to the previous week, as well as those targeting Italian users.
The week was characterized by Password Stealers of the Families: AgentTesla, FormBook and STRRAT.
The blue bar indicates the total number of campaigns monitored in Italy in each week, while the red bar concerns campaigns written in Italian (targeting Italy).
We monitored 53 campaigns this week, 8 of which used Italian as their language.
In order to understand how the various weeks are divided, below is a small table showing the breakdown of the periods considered:
Week
|
from |
to |
| Week_20 |
15/05 |
21/05 |
| Week_21 |
22/05 |
28/05 |
| Week_22 |
29/05 |
04/06 |
| Week_23 |
05/06 |
11/06 |
During the week, the highest peak of campaigns was found on Monday, June 05 with 12 different campaigns.The peak for the Italy target, with 3 campaigns, was found in the same day, as is highlighted by the chart below:
In the following chart we see the malware families that were spreaded globally for each day in the week:
Instead, in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week, 7 different families were detected:
The majority of the executable samples featured this week are MSILs (C#) covering 60.38% of the malware sent via e-mail. In second place are Win32s with 11.32%.
7.55% of the samples examined were Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc.), overcome by scripts with 15.09%.
In the picture below we can see the various types of languages with which malware is developed
:
In the following graph we see the distribution of the various types of languages divided by day
:
In this graph you can see the malware families that were spreaded with target Italy (written in Italian) in the week, composed of 3 different families:
The Italian campaigns analyzed by TG Soft's C.R.A.M. were grouped according to macro categories, obtained from the subject of the email message used for malware distribution (malspam). Below we see the subjects used in the various campaigns divided by day and type of malware.
05/06/2023
AgentTesla - spreaded through two campaigns themed "Orders".
FormBook - spreaded through two campaigns themed "Payments".
06/06/2023
AgentTesla - spreaded through two campaigns themed "Documents".
STRRAT - spreaded through two campaigns themed "Offers".
08/06/2023
AgentTesla - spreaded through two campaigns themed "Orders".
09/06/2023
FormBook - spreaded through two campaigns themed "Orders".
SnakeLogger - spreaded through two campaigns themed "Orders".
EMOTET
In the past week, the massive sending of MalSpam emails for the spread of the
Emotet malware, was not detected.
Find out if you are an Emotet target!
Check out the campaigns for the month of May/June
C.R.A.M.
TG Soft's Anti-Malware Research Center
